Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:17:17 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/ GamersNorth en-us http://www.gamersnorth.com/images//images/logo-legal.jpg http://www.gamersnorth.com/ gamersnorth@gamersnorth.com http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article44.html 40K BUGHUNT at Strategy & Games at the Silverlake Mall Today Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:17:17 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article43.html GamersNorth would like to wish your and your families a very happy, safe, and bountiful Thanksgiving. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:39:45 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article42.html December 12th & 13th starting at Noon Strategy & Games at the Silverlake Mall will be hosting a WH40K Mega Event Entry Fee is $20 per person, there are only 8 positions available so see Karl or Trevis to reserve your spot Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:13:36 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article41.html Strategy & Games will be hosting a Games Demo Day on Friday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday November 27th All Day Every Game All Day Come in and have some fun trying something new! Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:17:28 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article40.html Strategy & Games at the Silverlake Mall is announcing special discounts for students with good grades. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:07:22 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article39.html Zombie Apocalypse PvP Posted by Lucid It should come as no surprise that we at Cryptic love zombies--they're menacing, they're expendable, and they're great for solving puzzles in Scribblenauts. As we work on the upcoming Blood Moon event, though, there are enough Halloween-related events going on that when I talk about the Zombie Apocalypse I need to be clear *which* Zombie Apocalypse I'm referring to. Read the full article here. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:35:25 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article38.html WH40K Dark Heresy roleplaying is going on at Strategy & Games at the Silverlake Mall every Thursday Night starting at 5 p.m. Check in with Carl to confirm your seat. If you have never tried this game, you are missing out. I have played with the standard rules, and with a local variation for playing Orks adapted and written by David Barker and John Miller. Hopefully we can talk one of them into coming down and playing or GM ing for us. ogre Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:45:38 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article37.html Sunday, November 1st there will be a large event of WH40K, go into Strategy & Games at the Silverlake Mall to get more details. Auggie said it would be 24' of table in a 'Release the Squig' or was that 'Grease the Squig?' open game. Pop into the store and get more info. We will post more as soon as we get it ogre Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:33:36 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article36.html FLAMES OF WAR There will be a huge game of Flames of War on November 29th starting at 11 a.m. The Game will take place at Strategy & Games at the Silverlake Mall in Hayden, Idaho. The game setting is December 1942 in the Midwar Period. This means no Panthers, Brumbarrs, Su-76, Su-85, KV-85 and a few other things. Contact S&G staff for more info or post here in the FoW section to get more info or to sign up. Ogre Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:29:16 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article35.html If you are seeing this message then your internet provider has updated their DNS information and are now seeing us at our new host. I will be syncing email from the old site just to be sure all messages get to you. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:59:55 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article34.html I am happy to announce that I will be picking up this site and moving it to a new host! Now you may be asking, what does this mean to you, and quite simply it all comes down to less waiting, less frustrations, and a better over all experience. The site will load faster and will not have the constant issues it has been plagued with especially recently. We have been with our existing/previous host for 5 years now and I have found myself on the phone with them more than an acceptable amount of time, and generally for the same reasons. So several months ago we started researching new hosts and found out what they have to off us, admins and users alike, and found one that is a solid and reliable host. The move may take a few days, which means a potential in ability to access the site, access the old site, or some other little issues which I will be working hard to make sure are few and far between. Most of the site issues will be as the DNS zone records change which can take up to 72 hours to finish. So in the mean time please sit back and be patient as I pack our things and get settled into a new "house". Once the move is finished there will be a post on the new site letting you know it is finished. Thank you for your time and understanding. -SoddOff Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:35:14 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article33.html Taken from Boom! Studios: The Witch Hunters come to the fore in this five issue mini-series from the same team that brought you WARHAMMER: FORGE OF WAR. Tireless foes of Chaos in the Warhammer universe, Witch Hunters roam the Empire seeking to stop the spread of dark magic and witchery of all kinds. When Witch Hunter Magnus Gault hears that the nearby village of Loughville has fallen prey to the canker of Chaos, he is driven to investigate. Once there, he finds the buildings rancid and rotted and the villagers wretched and mutated - eager to prey upon any lost soul who should come their way. Can one man stand against this monstrous regiment? Warhammer 40,000 novelist Dan Abnett, multiple Eisner Award-nominee Ian Edginton, and fan-favorite artist Rahsan Ekedal return to bring you another tale from the epic, fantasy realm that is Warhammer! Fri, 30 May 2008 15:27:44 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article32.html Blizzard said that they will be setting replicas of Frostmourne with the pre-orders starting on 5/1/2008. They will also be taking registrations starting today to bid on the first 99. The auction starts on 3/18/2008 12:00PM EST and ends on 3/31/2008 10:00PM EST. Keep in mind there is a $429.00 registration fee on the auction (non refundable) and you will then be required to bid above and beyond that. Looks like the sword with have a street price of $379.00. You can get more information and see it by clicking here. As a person that has 2 swords already I will be hard pressed not to get this one. Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:36:22 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article31.html As you may have seen, Gary Gygax passed away early this morning. We would would like to send our hearts and thoughts out to the Gygax family. All of us here have, in some way, been influenced by the works of Gary Gygax and Dungeons & Dragons and as a community we will miss him and think of him often. For more information on Gary Gygax please check his entry in Wikipedia. There is also a post over at Slashdot and some nice commentary. You can also check out the forum post that bondosan started. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:51:46 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article30.html 2007 is now over and done, and I for one can say that last year was the best year I have had in a very long time. Here is to a happy and wonderful 2008 and may your dice roll good and your campaign be fun and exciting. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article29.html You may have been hearing about the latest Xbox Live update, and if you have not you should know that you will seeing it tomorrow. There are a lot of new things that you will see, and we have done our best to let you know what they will be. The first thing you may notice is the new Xbox Originals service. This will allow you to download original Xbox titles like Halo, Fable, and Psychonauts for 1200 points each. The one thing they will not have is achievements, and they will still have all the same emulation problems as before. The one thing it will allow you to do is stop searching high and low for a copy at your local game store and pawn shop. You will also see they are lowing the price on some of the Live Arcade Hits. Bankshot Billiards 2 and Lumines Live have been marked down to 800 points each, or for 400 points you can get Zuma, Marble Blast Ultra, or Small Arms. There is also some new social networking features like being able to see your friends' Friends Lists, and the ability to expand your gamer bio, providing more detailed information about yourself to the Xbox Live community. For those of you family types the addition of the Family Timer will allow time limits to be placed on the 360. Movie previews are also supposed to get a face lift by letting you see them full-screen. The update will also comes include "enhanced video codec support." What this means is that you will be able to play your DivX and Xvid files on your 360. You can get more info on the video support by clicking here Finally the dashboard tweaks will make way for a new news feed service called Inside Xbox which will launch on the 11th. It is designed to keep you up to date on 360 news like game releases, events, and Marketplace offers. Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:13:09 -0600 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article28.html Ever go to play a game only to realize your left your character at home? We have all seen this happen far too many times, but we have a solution for you: our new online character sheet program. You can add your existing characters or even make new characters online and then print them out from anywhere. You can even set to be part of a campaign, give your GM access to your character and make your characters publicly visible. The sheet will auto fill as much information as possible, but it is still editable so home rules used will still be available. Login and give it a try just by clicking on the characters menu. Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:02:49 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article27.html According to news on the next EA has gotten their dirty little hands on BioWare/Pandemic. This follows recent speculation of the purchase from serveral new sources. According to an articles at TheStreet.com and Kotaku EA made this move to position themselves better in the online role-playing market because of BioWare's early development of a MMO in its Austin, Texas, studio. EA is hoping the game will give the company the edge against popular online games such as World of Warcraft and science fiction game, Tabula Rasa, that have become a phenomenon among gamers. At this time BioWare and Pandemic Studios have 10 franchises under development, including six that are entirely owned by them according to EA. BioWare is also currently developing a game Mass Effect, which will be published by Microsoft, in November. The whole transaction is scheduled to close on January 2008. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:53:32 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article26.html So what happens when a less than honest company decides to try and destroy your peaceful community by attempting to fill it with their spam? Well you just about found out. After several hours work things are back to normal with some changes, and to say that seeing 2:00am in this way is not as fun as it could have been would be an understatement. Read on to find out what happened, who was involved, and what the end result was. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:59:43 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article25.html Well it wasn't like there was much left of FASA after they closed up most of everything else in 2001, but it seems that after the recent release of Shadowrun for the 360, what remained of FASA has closed it's doors. While Shadowrun fell short of being a great game, it's still a shame, I am going to miss Earthdawn, Crimson Skies, ! It's always a shame to see a classic RPG company disband. Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:14:50 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article24.html Wizards of the Coast is announcing at GenCon today that it will release the 4th Edition of its category-leading Dungeons and Dragon roleplaying game in 2008, the first full new edition in eight years. The three core books will be released next summer on a monthly schedule: Player’s Handbook in May, Monster Manual in June, and Dungeon Master’s Guide in July. Pricing and page counts of the new products will be consistent with current packaging. Graphics have been updated, art will be used on the covers, and interior design has been opened up to make the books less intimidating to new players. Read more at rustmonster.net You can also follow the blog at http://d20.jonnydigital.com/ for more information on D&D related news. Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:02:04 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article23.html At about 2:30 on June 19th there was a hard drive failure on the server where this site is hosted and it was this failure that caused the site and email to be unavailable. I am sorry for any problems this caused, but I can assure you that the site has been moved to a new server and everything has been restored. If you experience any problems then please send me a message and let me know so I can look at getting it resolved. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:18:24 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article22.html We speculated about it, everyone else expected it, and it has finally been confirmed: Blizzard announced it has started work on StarCraft 2! During its Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, Korea, Blizzard announced the development of StarCraft 2, the long-awaited sequel of one of the most popular real-time strategy games of all time. It was believed that a new title would be announced during the event, and industry speculation ranged from an MMORPG based on the StarCraft universe to a porting of the World of Warcraft series to next-gen consoles. Neither turned out to be the case however as Blizzard announced the return of the StarCraft series. During their announcement, Blizzard launched the official StarCraft 2 website (located at www.starcraft2.com), which currently only carries limited information about to the game, but has specific details regarding some of the new units and structures that will be available to Protoss forces. With the return of the zealots, the site has announced some new units including the Immortals (upgraded Dragoon units), Stalkers (the Dark Templar equivalent of Dragoons), and Phase Prisms. Resembling upgraded Arbiters, these new Phase Prisms serve two purposes. The first is the ability to instantaneously teleport Protoss units when used in conjunction with a Warp Gate. The second is to act as a temporary power source to surrounding Protoss structures in the absence of a Pylon or Nexus. Keep an eye on the site as Blizzard plans to update it in the near future to report on the changes being made to both the Terran and Zerg races. There has also been rumors that a fourth race, based on an amalgamation of both Terran and Zerg, would be introduced to the game though nothing has been revealed at this point. Because the game is in it's early stage of development, Blizzard is remaining tight-lipped about several of the other game's details, including release date, system requirements, and the even the possibility of a beta test. The company has confirmed that, while the Battle.net service will be updated to accommodate this new game, servers for the original StarCraft will not be affected. Wed, 23 May 2007 12:42:55 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article21.html According to a post at Thisisgame.com, Blizzard will announce the sequel for StarCraft an the World Wide Invitational (WWI) in South Korea; the home land of StarCraft. WWI is a Blizzard event where top gamers are invited to play Blizzard's games. Blizzard's strategy for announcing new games have traditionally been by surprising the crowd at one of the major game events, and over 100 international media partners have been invited to the World Wide Invitational. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:02:15 -0500 http://www.gamersnorth.com/Article20.html According to EGM reports it seems that BioWare has formed a new online team to make a Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic massively multiplayer online game (MMORPG). No further details were reported in the rumor section of the magazine however. KOTOR is one of the best Star Wars games ever and the thoughts that it could be turned into an MMO is exciting news indeed. If these rumors turn out to be true, then this would be the second MMO based in the Star Wars Universe, the first being Star Wars Galaxies by Sony Online which was launched in 2003. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:02:06 -0500